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CHAPTER III
_Job curses the day of his birth, and regrets that he ever saw_
_the light_, 1-12.
_Describes the empire of death and its inhabitants_, 13-19.
_Regrets that he is appointed to live in...
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AFTER THIS - Dr. Good renders this, “at length.” It means after
the long silence of his friends, and after he saw that there was no
prospect of relief or of consolation.
OPENED JOB HIS MOUTH - The usu...
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CHAPTER 3 JOB'S LAMENT
_ 1. Job curses the day of his birth (Job 3:1)_
2. He longs for death (Job 3:10)
3. The reason why (Job 3:24)
Job 3:1. The s
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JOB'S LAMENTATION. Here the later poem begins, and at once we pass
into another world. The patient Job of the Volksbuch is gone, and we
have instead one who complains bitterly that ever he was born. T...
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AFTER THIS: i.e. after this long restraint.
CURSED. Here we have the Hebrew _kalal,_ which was in the primitive
text. See note on Job 1:5.
HIS DAY: i.e. his birthday. Compare Job 3:3....
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_cursed his day_ The day of his birth. Reverent minds have always
found difficulty in accommodating themselves to the religious boldness
of the Book of Job. A curious instance of this is given in the...
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Would God I had never been conceived or born
This is the idea really expressed when Job curses his day and wishes
it blotted out of existence. First he curses the day of his birth and
the night of hi...
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DISCOURSE: 453
JOB CURSES THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH
Job 3:1. _After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day_.
IT is Worthy of observation, that the most eminent saints mentioned in
the sacred record...
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_JOB DETESTS THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH; WISHES THAT HE HAD NEVER BEEN BORN,
AND COMPLAINS THAT THE THING WHICH HE FEARED IS COME UPON HIM._
_Before Christ 1645._
_JOB 3:1. AFTER THIS OPENED JOB HIS MOUTH...
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_THE MEANING OF SILENCE_
Chapter s 314
I.
NO EXIT: HELL IS OTHER PEOPLESartre SPEECHES FULL OF SOUND AND FURY
Job 3:1, Job 14:22
A.
WHY ME, LORD? (Job 3:1-26)
1.
He curses his day. ...
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_AFTER THIS OPENED JOB HIS MOUTH, AND CURSED HIS DAY._
Opened Job his mouth. The Orientals speaks seldom, and then
sententiously. Hence, this formula, expressing deliberation and
gravity (Psalms 78:2...
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HIS DAY] the day of his birth. It was thought that the days of the
year had an existence of their own, so that any given day would come
round again in its turn. Hence Job is not cursing a day which lo...
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JOB CURSES HIS DAY
Job curses the day of his birth. He asks why he did not die at birth:
why should his wretched life be prolonged?
We are now confronted with a striking change in Job's frame of mind...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 3
JOB’S FIRST SPEECH
JOB R...
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Job’s friends waited for Job to speak. They waited for an entire
week. At last, Job spoke. Job explained that he was very sad. His life
seemed to have no value. He felt as if he was waiting to die.
J...
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III.
(1) AFTER THIS OPENED JOB HIS MOUTH. — There is a striking
similarity between this chapter and Jeremiah 20:14, so much so that
one must be borrowed from the other; the question is, which is the
o...
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אַחֲרֵי ־כֵ֗ן פָּתַ֤ח אִיֹּוב֙ אֶת
־פִּ֔יהוּ...
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VI.
THE CRY FROM THE DEPTH
Job 3:1
Job SPEAKS
WHILE the friends of Job sat beside him that dreary week of silence,
each of them was meditating in his own way the sudden calamities which
had brought...
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IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?
Job 3:1
In the closing paragraphs of the previous chapter three friends
arrive. Teman is Edom; for Shuah see Genesis 25:2; Naamah is Arabia.
The group of spectators, gathered r...
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Silent sympathy always creates an opportunity for grief to express
itself. Job's outcry was undoubtedly an answer to their sympathy. So
far, it was good, and they had helped him. It is always better t...
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After this opened (a) Job his mouth, and (b) cursed his day.
(a) The seven days ended, (Job 2:13).
(b) Here Job begins to feel his great imperfection in this battle
between the spirit and the flesh,...
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Cursed his day. Job cursed the day of his birth, not by way of wishing
evil to any thing of God's creation; but only to express in a stronger
manner his sense of human miseries in general, and of his...
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(1) В¶ After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. (2) And
Job spake, and said, (3) Let the day perish wherein I was born, and
the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived....
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CONTENTS
We have in this chapter, the complaints of Jobadiah The whole, from
beginning to end, is an unceasing lamentation. The afflicted mourner
dwells much upon the miseries of life, and the happin...
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Job's Complaint
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request for additional information regarding my claim. In block #3 of
the accident form, I put "trying to do the job...
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But the depths of Job's heart were not yet reached, and to do this was
the purpose of God, whatever Satan's thoughts may have been. Job did
not know himself, and up to this time, with all his piety, h...
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AFTER THIS OPENED JOB HIS MOUTH,.... order to speak, and began to
speak of his troubles and afflictions, and the sense he had of them;
for though, this phrase may sometimes signify to speak aloud, cle...
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After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Ver. 1. _After this_] After so long silence of his friends, and to
provoke them to speak, who haply waited for some words from him first,
as knowi...
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_After this Job opened his mouth_ The days of mourning being now over,
and no hopes appearing of Job's amendment, but his afflictions rather
increasing, he bursts into a severe lamentation; he wishes...
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JOB CURSES THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH.
Up till now Job had suppressed all thoughts of rebellion against God,
every notion of dissatisfaction and impatience with the ways of
Jehovah. But now he gives evide...
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After this opened Job his mouth, in the formal manner, with
deliberation and gravity, after the custom of the ancient sages, AND
CURSED HIS DAY, namely, the day of his birth....
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JOB'S BITTER COMPLAINT
(vv.1-26)
Though Job would not dare to curse God for his trouble, yet it seems
that the presence of his friends only caused a stronger, gradual
build-up of bitter distress in...
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At the end of the book we will be informed that Job will say some
things during his suffering that are not true (Job 38:2; Job 42:3-6),
that actually cloud the issue rather than throwing light upon it...
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1-10 For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without
offering consolidation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to
shake his confidence, and to fill him with hard thoughts of God....
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JOB CHAPTER 3 Job curseth the day and services of his birth, JOB 3:1.
The ease and honours of death, JOB 3:13. Life in anguish matter of
complaint, JOB 3:20. What he feared is now come upon him,...
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Job 3:1 After H310 Job H347 opened H6605 (H8804) mouth H6310 cursed
H7043 (H8762) day H3117
After -...
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Job 3:1. _After this opened Job his mouth._ The Masoretic Jews, as
well as our modern divines, seem agreed that Job now began the
_drama,_ and spake in poetic effusions of _verse._ They say the same
o...
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_After this opened Job his month, and cursed his day._
THE PERIL OF IMPULSIVE SPEECH
In regard to this chapter, containing the first speech of Job, we may
remark that it is impossible to approve the...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 3:1 Dialogue: Job, His Suffering, and His Standing
before God. Between the brief narrative sections of the prologue (Job
1:1) and epilogue ...
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NOTES
Job 3:5. “_Let the blackness of the day terrify it_.” Margin,
“_Let them terrify it as those who have a bitter day_” The
expression כִּמרִירֵי־יוֹם (_chimrire-yom_) gives rise
to two classes of...
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EXPOSITION
The "Historical Introduction" ended, we come upon a long colloquy, in
which the several _dramatis personae_ speak for themselves, the
writer, or compiler, only prefacing each speech with a...
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And finally Job spoke up. Job begins to curse the day of his birth.
Job opened his mouth, and he cursed his day (Job 3:1).
Notice he didn't curse God; just the day in which he was born.
Let the day...
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Jeremiah 20:14; Jeremiah 20:15; Job 1:11; Job 1:22; Job 2:10;...
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JOB'S SORROWS AND SIGHS
Job 2:9; Job 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
In this study we will consider the verses which lie in the second
chapter of Job beginning with verse nine where we left off in the
forme...
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His day — His birth — day, in vain do some endeavour to excuse
this and the following speeches of Job, who afterwards is reproved by
God, and severely accuseth himself for them, Job 38:2, Job 40:4, Jo...